Steve Schmidt reacts to the 2nd Republican debate, Tim Scott & Nikki Haley square off

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Steve Schmidt reacts to the second Republican debate held on Fox News. He discusses the disappointing performances of Chris Christie, Mike Pence & Ron DeSantis and comments on the dustup between Nikki Haley and Tim Scott. He also comments how none of these candidates have what it takes to take on Donald Trump.

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0:00.0	Watching the second Republican debate on Fox News was a jarring experience to say the least.
0:08.0	When it was over, Governor Gavin Newsom of California observed he didn't think that there was a vice president on the stage, let alone a president.
0:17.0	I do have to ask if you think that the Republican primary process has a purpose and whether
0:22.9	tonight's debate had a purpose, whether it did any good.
0:27.6	I mean, selling ads perhaps, but you're right. It was the XFL, it was the JV team.
0:34.9	I thought, and I mean this, I'm not just trying to even play games here. I thought it would be
0:39.1	more of a vice presidential debate, but I wasn't even convinced that we saw the next vice president
0:43.6	nomination for Donald Trump on the stage. So look, from Trump's perspective tonight was great.
0:49.3	There was no great breakout. There was feeble attempts to take shots of Trump for not showing up. But I honestly,
0:57.3	I mean this. I know I'm in the spin room. I know I'm with you, Rachel. I really believe
1:01.4	the winner tonight was the Biden agenda. I'm not sure that Governor Newsom isn't wildly optimistic.
1:08.6	I'm not sure it looked like there was a deputy assistant secretary of the
1:12.3	interior on the stage. Now, what we saw last night wasn't a presidential debate. The person who's
1:21.1	leading the race by 50 points wasn't there. Mike Pence, for example, has no chance whatsoever of being president of the United
1:30.5	States. He has 100% name ID and is stuck at 2% in the polls and can't really bring himself
1:39.5	to condemn the man who tried to have him hung. But putting that aside, it wasn't just Mike Pence
1:47.5	who was silly. It's all of them. Let's look at Chris Christie's finest moment. And I want to look
1:53.2	in that camera right now and tell you, Donald, I know you're watching. You can't help yourself.
1:57.3	I know you're watching. Okay. And you're not here tonight, not because of polls and not
2:03.0	because of your indictments. You're not here tonight because you're afraid of being on the stage
2:08.3	and defending your record. You're ducking these things. And let me tell you what's going to happen.
2:12.8	You keep doing that. No one up here is going to call you Donald Trump anymore. We're going to call
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